Liege

Date

12 March 1943

Target

Liege

Force dispatched

13 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

Sortie details (which aircraft from which squadron, which crew flew, the outcome) will populate this page once the TNA AIR 27 squadron-diary importer arrives.

The fallen

246 airmen in this archive died on 12 March 1943 or the day that followed. For a raid of this kind these are overwhelmingly the night's losses, though a death-date match is not by itself proof an individual flew this operation.

• Flight Sergeant Howard Victor Adams (22)
• Sergeant William Eric Akrill (21)
• Flight Sergeant Andrew Allan
• Sergeant William Andrews
• Pilot Officer Douglas Invicta Arthur
• Sergeant Henry Edwin Ash (21)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Barker (26)
• Flying Officer Anthony Drew Ashby Barnes (27)
• Sergeant Albert Edward Beaven
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Patrick Beesley (22)
• Flying Officer Edwin Harold Beeton
• Sergeant George Edward Benson
• Sergeant Harry Bentley (29)
• Flying Officer Roy Benzies (31)
• Flight Sergeant Winston Seymour Berry (22)
• Pilot Officer Lionel Hubert Rogers Binning
• Sergeant Henry Stuart Fell Bishell (22)
• Sergeant William Smith Black (19)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas George Blackmore (22)
• Sergeant William Alfred Blackmore (25)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Samuel Boarer
• Pilot Officer Peter Britten (19)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Harold Brough
• Sergeant Anthony Richard Burgess (21)

See all 246 who died on 12 March →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →